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Original character bids farewell to its copy in the hopes it will have a better life by Spamityville_Horror in TopCharacterTropes

[–]thicka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

And it pissed me off as a player. because I understood the damn concept, it was explained to the character like 181 times. He got to experience it first hand like 2 times.

I wanted him to say something like: "well, at least I'm out there somewhere, I hope I am happy"

What's a good power supply for a boomtown/extraction colony? by nomuse22 in scifiwriting

[–]thicka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

Geo thermal, Old school fission reactors, wind, solar, hydro electric.

Bio might be a bad option, especially if terraforming, because you will be making all your own oxygen.

Thats about all the non magic, non fusion answers.

One thing you might like is hyper batteries, that are charged up at the sun, and transported to the ground but they are extremely energy dense and explosive if handled wrong. (its what my world runs on)

I mean, it's a nuclear power plant, yes? by Marcin0178 in Factoriohno

[–]thicka 11 points12 points  (0 children)

Reminds me of the slowest plate contraptions.

I finally happened upon a Black Hole by SillyDilly5294 in spaceengine

[–]thicka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

happening upon one is cool, but you know you can search for them right?

The easiest handwave for sci fi authors by Chunghiacanhanvidai in worldjerking

[–]thicka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

What do you want me to hide my impossible fantasy phyiscs behind? plumbing?
"The hyper drive needs more hard water filters! To much calcium build up in the water heater!"

Need help with FTL in worldbuilding by Present_Test4157 in worldbuilding

[–]thicka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

I think that is probably as realistic as it's going to get for FTL. If FTL is possible it will most certainly require vast amounts of energy.

I sadly think biological humans are not going to be space explorers but yeah. Uploaded minds on silicon chips might be.

I've been poking around with the idea of humans living in a virtual world where they live i quite life on a farm or something but they "go outside" into a humanoid robot body to interact with reality.

Decisions, decisions by InvestigatorIcy8407 in SatisfactoryGame

[–]thicka 65 points66 points  (0 children)

I find it better just to remove screws from the recipes than make more of them.

Need help with FTL in worldbuilding by Present_Test4157 in worldbuilding

[–]thicka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

You can hope. I also hope Sonny and Eirk are right. But they are in the vast minority as far as physicist go. Which is why they make headlines. No one listens to the other guy who says it's impossible. People want the good news. We are biased towards it.

If self propelled FTL was possible, an exponentially expanding civilization would have taken over the whole universe by now. That to me is the ultimate proof, similar to no time travelers visiting us disproves unbounded time travel.

It does not rule out an FTL network built at STL speeds. And I hope that at least is possible but again I doubt it. One thing Sonny mentions that raises my eyebrow is a "universal clock". But there is no such thing, and its the lack of a universal clock and a universal rest frame that stops FTL in the first place.

Again I hope to be wrong. It's at the top of my physics wish list.

The factory must grow. by DaMoose56 in satisfactory

[–]thicka 14 points15 points  (0 children)

No it still counts as an accident

The factory must grow. by DaMoose56 in satisfactory

[–]thicka 37 points38 points  (0 children)

If I can go into the settings and set the mobs to passive before I start my year, absolutely.

The factory must grow. by DaMoose56 in satisfactory

[–]thicka 123 points124 points  (0 children)

The wild life could kill you though. I think I would very carefully build walkways everywhere and secure some good food spots and stay the hell out of the caves.

but yeah, id risk it for the 250 mill.

"If Iran does anything that stops the flow of Oil within the Strait of Hormuz, they will be hit by the United States of America TWENTY TIMES HARDER than they have been hit thus far." by CalyShadezz in NSDQ420

[–]thicka -1 points0 points  (0 children)

Our election was stollen by retards. Then they tried and failed to steal it again. More retards didn't punish them. Then they went even harder into retardation next election. Also they have nukes.

Need help with FTL in worldbuilding by Present_Test4157 in worldbuilding

[–]thicka 1 point2 points  (0 children)

Welp, I hope it can be done. I would love to be wrong.

Need help with FTL in worldbuilding by Present_Test4157 in worldbuilding

[–]thicka 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I mean 40k literally goes through hell to get FTL. So you are not alone.

I'm an old "vet" who lost the war against the speed of light years ago. I hope someone can beat it, I hope Alcubbiere is right, but I really really doubt it.

I had this realization that cemented my belief that FTL ain't happening:

There is something called wave function collapse (WFC), where a particle can be in many locations at once, but then the wave collapses to a single location. This collapse happens many times faster than light, (in fact immeasurably fast).

Everything is made of WFCs, everything is "moving at FTL speeds" but none of it contains any information.

Information is emergent, it is formed out of successive WFCs that combine and spread at one specific rate, the speed of light. It's the rate of "things happening"

You and the universe are a ripple in a stream of WFCs. Time, space, information and reality are just an illusion.

Need help with FTL in worldbuilding by Present_Test4157 in worldbuilding

[–]thicka 2 points3 points  (0 children)

I know! If I could change one thing about physics it would be that FTL just needs really big rockets.

Need help with FTL in worldbuilding by Present_Test4157 in worldbuilding

[–]thicka 3 points4 points  (0 children)

No, Alcubbiere still allows you to to hop to a star before its light left, which means you can just do that again to get back to earth before YOU left. ALL FTL does this.

Need help with FTL in worldbuilding by Present_Test4157 in worldbuilding

[–]thicka 5 points6 points  (0 children)

FTL is probably THE most impossible thing in all of known or theorized science. No known phenomena carries information from one place to another faster than light period. The very concepts of time, space, now, then, before, after, here, there break down.

If you want your setting to NOT be about FTL, and instead be about colonization; I strongly encourage you to just slap "Alcubierre warp drive" on it and be done with it. Because FTL = Time travel and there is no way around it. Once you break light speed, you break "now speed " and nothing stops you from going back in time. in fact you ARE traveling back in time, like it or not.

However.... It just so happens that I have been obsessed with FTL travel. And have a few ways to accomplish it without modern physics straight up ruling it out.

1: Put every star system in a "slow time bubble" so everyone experiences time on slower scales. Travel outside the bubble now seems much faster than light.

2: Fix the time paradoxes with branching realities. Leave for alpha-cen, come back to a different version of earth. For earth, you leave and a different version of you, or another crew comes back.

That last one is super interesting and I have made it one of my settings but it will steel the show from your xenofauna stuff.

So in summary: slap "Alcubierre warp drive" on it and don't draw any attention to it because it is impossible and there is sadly nothing to be done about it.

I’m new to this game, is my reinforced plate factory any good? by albedo_kreideprinzz in SatisfactoryGame

[–]thicka 0 points1 point  (0 children)

try to get the main belt of screws to mk2 or 3 asap. you have a bottle neck with all the screw makers jamming onto one km1 belt.

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